万恶的拖延症，你有吗？

 Procrastination¹, pro-cra-sti-nation. Procrastination.

拖延症。拖-延-症。拖延症。

Procrastination is avoiding doing something.

拖延症是逃避做一些事情。

Procrastination is not being able to get started.

拖延症是无法开始做事。

It's reading a book. It's descaling a kettle. It's color-coordinating your shelves. It's sharpening your pencil.

拖延的事可以是读一本书，是给水壶除垢，是按照(书的)颜色去排列书架，是削铅笔

Procrastination is spending 30 minutes looking for the right pen. It's spending 10 minutes getting the right pen to work.

拖延症是花30分钟去找一支对的笔。是再花10分钟来用这支对的笔开始做事

Procrastination is making a cup of tea.

拖延症是泡一杯茶

Procrastination is finding the most difficult way of doing something. It's jumping from one idea to another, to another.

拖延症是找出最难的那种方法去做一件事，是想出一个又一个又一个的方案来做一件事

It’s checking your emails,writing your emails…

是检查你的邮箱；写你的邮件

Procrastination is… is just sorcerizing words in your emails.

拖延症是… 是对你的邮件反复遣词造句。

Procrastination is staring at the window… It’s watching the neighbours… It’s watching television…It’s being unable to stop watching television!

拖延症是盯着窗外看… 是看着邻居再干嘛…是看电视… 是无法停止看电视！

It’s smoking your cigarette.It’s doing the dishes.

是抽烟。是洗碟子碗筷

Procrastination is… tiding your desk.

拖延症是… 整理你的桌子

It’s creating… a, a fire-escaping plan.

是制定一个火灾逃生计划

Procrastination is rearranging your furniture.

拖延症是重新摆放家具

It’s playing computer games. It’s playing imaginary computer games with your furniture.

是玩电脑游戏，是想象着和你的家具玩电脑游戏

Procrastination is pairing up your socks.

拖延症是把袜子一对一对折好。

It’s writing thank-you letters, it’s not writing thank-you letters.

是写感谢信，是不写感谢信

Procrastination… is daydreaming².Procrastination… is petting something. It’s watering a plant. It’s doodling. Procrastination is trying to grow a mustache. It’s chasing a fly, tapping your pencil.

拖延症是… 做白日梦。拖延症是… 照顾宠物。是浇花，是乱涂乱画。拖延症是试着长胡子。是捉苍蝇，敲笔。

It’s doing eight things at once and not getting one done.

是同时做八件事但一件都不做完。

Procrastination is taking a nap…Procrastination… is getting drunk.It’s scratching yourselves. It’s making a cup of tea.

拖延症是打个小盹儿…拖延症是… 买醉。是挠挠自己；是泡一杯茶。

It’s cutting your finger, it’s oiling the bike, it’s picking your nose!

是割破了你的手指，是给你的自行车上油，是挖你的鼻子！

It’s waiting for the postman, it’s trying to avoid the inevitable³.

是等待邮递员，是试着逃避那些不可避免的事情。

Procrastination is writing lists.It’s not being able to decide what way to do something. It’s over-complicating things yourself.

拖延症是列清单。是无法决定用什么方法去做一件事。是过度抱怨发生的事。

It’s being afraid to finish something. It’s not knowing when to finish something.It’s not knowing how to finish… something.

拖延症是害怕完成一件事。是不知道什么时候该结束一件事。是不知道如何完成这件事。

1 procrastination   

n.拖延，耽搁

参考例句：

• Procrastination is the father of failure. 因循是失败的根源。
• Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。

2 daydreaming   

v.想入非非，空想( daydream的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Stop daydreaming and be realistic. 别空想了，还是从实际出发吧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Bill was sitting and daydreaming so his mother told him to come down to earth and to do his homework. 比尔坐着空想， 他母亲要他面对现实，去做课外作业。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。